Fear

It’s 3 in the morning. Everyone is sleeping. All the lights are out except the one beside my computer desk. I turn off the light. Turn off the computer. I figure before the monitor’s light is completely out, I’ll make it to the bed. But for some reason Windows shuts down right away. It’s pitch black. I feel someone is standing 2 meters ahead of me on the right side. I don’t look. I go to bed. I pull the blanket on my face. I can hear sounds from everywhere. My closet, my desk. ‘It’s just the change in temperature, it makes things sound’ I tell myself. I can’t sleep. You stupid fool, just get out of the blanket, what can be out there? It’s dark. Nothing is there. But I don’t look behind me. It might be standing there. I know what it is. A human, with a long robe, face is disfigured, it will hurt me. You watch too many movies. I quickly reach for my reading light, beside my bed. OK, I’m safe now. I stand up. Turn on the computer. Open MS Word, and start writing this blog entry. My computer hangs. I restart. Start over writing. It hangs again. Try one more time. I restart , I see a moving shadow on the black screen of my computer. All I can do now is to